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Articles tagged with: Mobile Messaging and Wap
Time to invest in mobile messaging, say operators worldwide
Airwide Solutions, has published the results of a study - which was conducted by the independent analyst house, Direct2Mobile - which found that mobile operators believe SMS will become the enabler that underpins next generation advanced services with all the operators surveyed claiming that they are seeking to use the investment they have made in developing their mobile messaging infrastructure in order to introduce new value-added services. more
Related Tags: sim, mms, sms, social-networking, arpu, mobile-broadband, location-based-services, mobile-internet, play
Sony Ericsson pre-loads Fun Text in Customised Handset
Sony Ericsson has announced a deal with mobile messaging service provider Fun Text to pre-load the Fun Text application onto one of its new handsets, which Hutchison 3G is to launch in Q2 this year. more
Related Tags: sony-ericsson, t-mobile, 3g, hutchison-3g, ericsson, sony, symbian, 3, sprint, UK
Growth of Mobile Content Services to Increase ARPUs for LatAm Operators
Mobile content services have been catching on fast in Latin America and were responsible for 3.1 percent of the total mobile telephony revenues in 2007. In the same year, the number of mobile content users reached 57.1 million or 31.1 percent of the total number of mobile subscribers. While mobile music continues to be the most in-demand service among end users, games and video will gradually gain in popularity. more
Related Tags: mobile-data, mobile-music, mobile-content
Vodafone and Telefonica Take Stakes in Mobile Ad Agency
The mobile advertising group, Amobee Media Systems has announced that both Vodafone and Telefonica have made minority investments in the company, joining Sequoia Capital, Accel Partners and Globespan in funding Amobee through its next stage of development. more
Related Tags: pyramid-research, telefonica, mobile-advertising, amobee-media-systems
Study: 38% of top LatAm banks offer m-banking
A study by Latinia showed the preferred method of mobile banking is through the exchange of SMS messages, as evidenced by 76% of the Latin American banks that have m-banking options. more
Related Tags: m-banking, mobile-banking
SMS traffic surges 20% to 8.4bn messages in 2006
The volume of short message service (SMS) traffic in Brazil surged 20% to 8.4bn messages in 2006 compared to 7.0bn in 2005, newspaper Gazeta Mercantil reported, citing estimates from mobile messaging solution supplier Okto. more
Related Tags: mms, text-messages
mBlox Processes 1.4 Billion SMSs Worldwide
The messaging interconnection firm, mBlox has announced a record number of off-portal transactions for 2006, processing over 1.4 billion application-to-person transactions worldwide. 2006 was the fifth consecutive year of high growth for mBlox, with business up 40% over 2005. more
Related Tags: premium-sms, mblox